Beginner Guide To Activators - Mega Thread

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CategoryVehicle

Platforms and playersAll Consoles

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Game generationAny supported generation

TUTORIAL

Beginner’s guide: Activators (Benny’s / “Flasher” wheels)

Original copies are often made with a save editor; patches change stuff—double-check the working glitches thread before you sink time into this.

What is an “activator”?

An activator is a special car setup using Activator-style Benny’s rims that turn a blue color (only certain Benny’s styles work). It turns on other cars with flasher wheels—usually Waves Benny’s where the tire stripe flashes once the chain is right.

• Flasher — modded wheels that can flash, but this car isn’t the activator. If nothing ever “turns on,” it’s still a flasher until you run the right activator flow.
• Activator — the car whose wheel/tire state triggers that behavior for compatible cars / your garage flow.

Think of it as the key ; flashers are the locks that only match certain keys.

How to tell which activator you have (LS Customs test)

Drive the car into LS Customs and don’t change anything —go in and out (or watch while inside). Check the tire / line design :

• Tire design stays the same → Traditional / regular activator — can only activate a common flasher.
• Lines turn red → Red line activator — treated as the strongest . Can activate Waves flashers (white-line tire look)—including blue, retro, regular, and another red line.
• Lines turn blue → Blue line activator — same Waves job as red; same general steps .
• Retro whitewall activator — doesn’t do what common / red / blue do on their own; it’s for chaining with a regular activator (steps below).

Golden rules (stuff that breaks activators)

1. Don’t customize the car.. please.
2. Don’t drive them into random garages to store or hop around— pulling into the wrong garage can break the setup.
3. LS Customs / LSCM — driving in without changing modifications is how people wake or check state; buying other people's activators car is fine in the LSCM!
4. Steps below that mention a new session need Spawn Location: Last Location set before you join that session.

Traditional (regular) activator

• Can only activate a common flasher (not the full Waves chain the way red lines/blue lines typically do).
• You can refresh/activate a traditional activator with LS Car Meet → Mod Vehicle (don’t change anything <3) or LS Customs (in and out, no changes).

Retro whitewall → regular chain (short version):

1. Request the retro whitewall activator and park near the garage where your regular activator lives.
2. Set spawn to Last Location , then find new session .
3. Get in the retro car, go to that garage, drive out the regular activator —flashing for that chain can start.

Red line or blue line activators (Waves / flashers)

Same idea for both.

1. Request the red or blue line activator; park near a garage that has Waves flashers.
2. Last Location → new session .
3. Enter that garage and pull out your car.

Red line noteyou can have Waves with white line tire design across blue, retro, regular, and another red line .

Garage behavior (quick)

• Drive out a common flasher (not an activator) → you can often keep the flash when switching to another common flasher .
• Drive out an activator → only that car may flash; going back inside for another car can end it.
• Deactivates if another player calls out their activator while yours is out, or you activate , drive out an activator , then re-enter the garage for a different car .

Moving an activator to another garage

Request from the destination garage and replace a slot in the full garage where the activator was — do not “just drive it into another garage”; that can break it.

Quick fix“wake/activate” at LS Customs

Drive in , change nothing , drive back out . Common way to "activate" your activators.

Links

• General / helpful: YouTube – overview
• Playlist: YouTube Playlist
• No Save Wizard (needs a magic slot — see working thread): YouTube – no SW
• Turn on & fix broken: YouTube – fix / on
• What’s still working: r/gtaglitches working thread
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SOURCE AND STATUS

This guide was cataloged from the GTA Glitches working list on July 28, 2026. Rockstar updates can change or patch methods, so check the community status before attempting it.

Source guidehttps://www.reddit.com/r/gtaglitches/comments/1s9y9he/the_beginners_guide_to_activators/

Working listhttps://gtaglitches.com/working-glitches